tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post7622569938834037221..comments2024-03-28T10:49:14.510-05:00Comments on Horizons: The Price People Pay for Living in a White Supremacist Bubble Nancy LeTourneauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-5227667420236525722021-08-22T10:43:57.224-05:002021-08-22T10:43:57.224-05:00Terrific report. As a telling coincidence, the sam...Terrific report. As a telling coincidence, the same day the NY Times ran an obit on the popular author of a book debunking bad history in textbooks, not because he had a political agenda, but because he was a teacher himself and appalled. The one described in the obit was about rosy views of southern whites as having taken things back from the vile state of affairs in Reconstruction, when (the story goes) blacks governed, badly, and had to be rescued by the benevolent whites from themselves. <br /><br />Not that those eating up complaints about critical race theory need always do so to preserve the good old biases. They may simply love being victims and love having a liberal, educated enemy. But it can boil down to much the same thing. <br /><br />The other half of the post, about black gains, has me less sanguine and thinking only "let's hope." Bloggers have promised demographic gains for so long now, particularly in Texas, which right now with voting rights and Covid is striving for the prize of most hateful state in the union (a tough contest given Covid rates in Louisiana and Alabama and the Florda governor's similar policies). Besides, even should things change, we'll still be up against the usual gaming of the system: gerrymanders, the Senate and the electoral college's favoring of less populated states, GOP funding advantage, GOP safe havens in think tanks, the propaganda machine in right-wing media, and the compliant mainstream media. <br /><br />Fine as Charles Blow is, and praiseworthy as his choice to move may be as well, it comes off as a fantasy as well. It is an act of privileged, when most people live precisely where they can afford to and can get a job. Even if enough others had a choice, how many people choose their home for maximum impact at the polls? Seriously! If jobs and housing aren't the sole constraint, surely many more live where they know it minimizes their impact, because they seek cultural opportunities and a lifestyle that place them among others like themselves politically as well. Should we decry that? Even if I could afford to leave NYC, I wouldn't be going anytime soon. JohnHhttps://www.haberarts.comnoreply@blogger.com